Commonwealth v. Talbot’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Avila (2009), Commonwealth v. Cory (2009)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kirby v. Illinois · United States v. Sun-Diamond Growers of California · Baumann v. United States · United States v. Hicks · Commonwealth v. Bohannon
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the witness was the victim in the case on trial, her consent was the central issue, she was the only Commonwealth witness on that issue, her testimony was inconsistent and confused, and there was a basis in independent third-party records for concluding that the prior accusations of the same type of crime had been made and were false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Generally, a trial judge is accorded 'substantial discretion in deciding whether evidence is relevant'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may have played a part in the judge's over-all concept in sentencing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.